SteveJ-restore-test

Will Apple add a torrent like ability to its iCloud offering?? iCloud is a remote filesystem with a lot of metadata and does 4 things: provides "second copy of my precious data" (for files I've generated) allows synchronisation of those files across the multiple devices/platforms a user connects. This is the aspect Apple 'sells': email, contact and calendar sync and restore/recover. mediates the enforcement of copyright and content distribution does Internet-Scale data de-duplication. By data volume, the Internet is a 'Viewing Platform'. 1 upload == zillions downloads [write once, download ~infinite] Apple could create an Internet-Scale "Content Delivery Network" with iCloud if ran a peer-peer network, something like the hugely successful bit-torrent protocol/service. Because you've got authorised content and validated entities/logins in a vendor controlled environment, there isn't a direct copyright or leakage problem, just the ever-p...

Why do we need fine products like Content Keeper , when the problem is one that should be solved at source? [11-Apr-2007 Addition] The "Kathy Sierra" affair caused Chris Locke, co-author of Cluetrain Manifeso to post his version/take . My take from reading about the affair. This whole affair unfolded because "Web 2.0" not just allows, but enforces, anonymity. Provable Identities don't exist. In an hour's scrolling through posts, I never saw this point [or anything like it] made. How far would this thing have gone if the police could've tracked the posters quickly and unequivocally? Presumably within a day or so the perpetrators would've been identifiedand action initiated, legal jurisdictions allowing. There are good reasons to allow & support anonymity on the Web -"Freedom of Speech" is part of it, along with denying Political suppression and enabling 'whistleblowing'. But the ugly human stuff of stalking, intimidation and co...